My favorite artworks of the post-2008 financial crisis were Alex Schaefer's impressionistic yet realistic canvases of Chase Bank locations on fire. Calm yet blazing, clinical yet mysterious, they perfectly captured ...
Trudeau & Doonesbury: A Biography, by Joshua Kendall, was released this week by Abrams Press. It's a thoroughly researched biography of cartoonist Garry Trudeau and his epic, massively influential comic ...
Vivianite is the most goth crystal on Earth. This beautiful mineral forms in places rich in decaying organic matter, such as ancient graves, old bones, peat bogs, and even submerged ...
Someone took a smartphone photo at the exact moment their phone died, creating a compelling glitch that was shared by @beams.archive. The photo, of a garden, is split into two parts.
Cows are social animals and have cow best friends, but new research shows that they can also recognize and differentiate human faces. Cows have been domesticated for over 10,000 years,
With the FIFA World Cup less than a fortnight away, even the robots are going crazy for football. The Atlas humanoid robot from Boston Dynamics has undergone many iterations since ...
An investigator who writes as The Drey Dossier dug through public web-certificate records and found 40 federal-looking websites all registered to the White House. Among them: a working copy of ...
Watching Myroslava Boikiv paint chickens is like a magic trick in watercolor. She drops a blob of pigment on wet paper and lets it puddle wherever it wants. Once the ...
Chung Yong-jin, the retail tycoon in charge of Starbucks Korea, apologized yesterday for a marketing campaign that made fun of a 1980 massacre of pro-democracy protestors. It was the executive's ...